Jennifer Lopez kisses backup dancers in 2025 AMAs efficiency

Jennifer Lopez hosted the 2025 AMAs and kicked off the present with a medley efficiency of the yr’s high hits.
Lopez kissed a few her backup dancers on stage.
She additionally danced to different songs by Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, Woman Gaga, Bruno Mars, Beyoncé, and extra.

Jennifer Lopez turned up the warmth in an enormous approach throughout her opening efficiency on the 2025 American Music Awards.

After powering by a rendition of her 2012 hit “Dance Once more,” the worldwide icon and ceremony host kicked off Monday evening’s present with a high-energy dance routine set to a medley of latest radio hits.

Halfway by the set, after Lopez ditched a space-themed helmet she sported in the course of the starting sequence, the 55-year-old started transferring to a remixed model of “Lose Management” by singer Teddy Swims.

As her backup dancers shifted place round her, Lopez locked lips with a male dancer, earlier than a feminine dancer approached Lopez and kissed her as effectively.

Jennifer Lopez smooches a male backup dancer in the course of the 2025 AMAs.

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One other dancer in a magenta wig whirled towards Lopez after that, with the pair’s lips nearly touching in a tantalizing tease earlier than the music as soon as once more modified to an alternate mixture of Woman Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile.”

Jennifer Lopez and a backup dancer nearly kiss throughout steamy AMAs efficiency.

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Elsewhere in the course of the set, Lopez and her dancers grooved to uptempo iterations of different notable songs, together with “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter, “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar, “A Bar Tune” by Shaboozey “Apt.” by Rosé and Mars, “Sizzling to Go!” by Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather,” and Beyoncé’s No. 1 hit “Texas Maintain ‘Em,” amongst others.

“I needed to kick issues off, that, turning it as much as the largest songs of the yr and dancing my coronary heart out for all of you,” Lopez stated after the set, earlier than saluting the nation’s veterans, because the AMAs awards present happened on the Memorial Day vacation.

Lopez returned to the AMAs stage as host for the second time in her profession, after she hosted the 2015 ceremony as effectively.

Leisure Weekly has reached out to a consultant for Lopez for extra touch upon her efficiency.

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Further stars beforehand introduced to sing on stage on the 2025 AMAs included Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, Benson Boone, Lainey Wilson, Gloria Estefan, Reneé Rapp, Rod Stewart, Becky G, Manuel Turizo, and Icon Award recipient Janet Jackson.